192 W. Va. 247 - State v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 195 W. Va. 573 - Appalachian Power Co. v. State Tax Department (1995), 196 W. Va. 588 - Muscatell v. Cline (1996)
127 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Edwards v. Arizona · Manson v. Brathwaite · Arizona v. Fulminante
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court is constitutionally obligated to give plenary, independent, and de novo review to the ultimate question of whether a particular confession is voluntary and whether the lower court applied the correct legal standard in making its determination. The holdings of prior West Virginia cases suggesting deference in this area continue, but that deference is limited to factual findings as opposed to legal conclusions.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[R]epresentations or promises made to a defendant by one in authority do not necessarily invalidate a subsequent confession. In determining voluntariness of a confession, the trial court must assess the totality of all the surrounding circumstances. No one factor is determinative.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘ “ ‘A trial court’s decision regarding the voluntariness of a confession will not be disturbed unless it is plainly wrong or clearly against the weight of the evidence.’ Syllabus Point 3, State v. Vance, 162 W.Va. 467 , 250 S.E.2d 146 (1978).” Syl.Pt. 7, State v. Hickman, 175 W.Va. 709 , 338 S.E.2d 188 (1985).’ Syllabus Point 2, State v. Stewart, 180 W.Va. 173 , 375 S.E.2d 805 (1988).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.